NeoLoad vs OpenText LoadRunner

Quote on request

Quote on request

Enterprise licensing by peak virtual users, negotiated annually.

Licensed by peak virtual users with protocol bundles priced separately. Historically among the most expensive tools in testing.

Free edition limited to a small number of virtual users.

Community edition with a 50-virtual-user limit.

Established

Tricentis · since 2005

Established

OpenText · since 1993

• Handles enterprise protocols such as SAP GUI and Citrix that open-source tools cannot.
• APM correlation makes root-cause analysis much faster than latency graphs alone.
• Both GUI design and as-code authoring, so mixed-skill teams can share a suite.

• The broadest protocol coverage available anywhere.
• Extremely mature analysis and correlation tooling.
• Accepted by enterprise architecture and audit functions without argument.

• Expensive, with a procurement-scale sales process.
• Overkill for a straightforward web or API workload.
• Proprietary scripts do not port to other tools.

• Very expensive, and the protocol-bundle licensing model is hard to predict.
• Dated tooling and a steep learning curve; specialists are a distinct job role.
• Poor fit for continuous, developer-run performance testing.

Large enterprises performance-testing SAP, Citrix or Oracle estates.

Large enterprises with legacy protocol requirements and an existing performance-engineering team.